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Newspaper
General Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Apr 06, 1771
Page
1
The Proprietors thank the public for long support and pledge to improve the paper. They seek equitable encouragement in proportion to desert, promising good paper, careful type, thorough intelligence, clear arrangement, diverse proper matter, open essays, fair advertisements, and enhanced manufacture and commerce notices to win public approval.
London Gazette items note the death of Dowager Princess Radzivil in Dresden on the prior Wednesday. The report lists maritime weather delays and schedules for several merchants and tradesmen appearing at Guildhall or local towns. It also covers military movements from Spithead to Gibraltar and appointments at St Mary Hall, with ship movements and arrivals across various ports.
Merlin and Cruzer India Watch arrived with the Dutch ship at Nantz Molaga Packet. Other vessels include Dion from Liverpool, Barbadoes Planter from London, Providence from Charante, Jane from Toulon, Beatrix from Limerick, and Diana from Rhode Island. Her Majesty absent from drawing-room but service held at her palace. A large weekly meeting of the Society of Friends of Freedom praised the Lord Mayor and Aldermen Wilkes and Oliver for upholding laws and rights, with a committee sent to convey thanks. Reports from Edinburgh describe unrest over high corn prices in Dumfries, military actions against mobs, and reflections on governance and civil conflict. Further items note social events, a polite reproof of misrule, and a marriage notice for Miss Bannister. A death notice follows: John Philips, a barber, died in Bedford-row.
A garbled page Fragment presents snippets of satirical and political quotes. It names figures like Mora Burke Conway Barre North Townspend and Lord Mayor amid jests about duty, state affairs, and drink. The text reads as a collage of figures and lines, with inconsistent capitalization and punctuation, likely a literary quip.
The program features the Busy Fly and The Hon Wedbore Tweed Side with The Life of a Beau by Charles Fenkinsor, songs from Fres in the Beggar's Opera, and a new Weatherbeaten pantomime, Britons Staike Hoxusu finale by the People of England.
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